A stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and member of parliament for Dormaa West, Kweku Agyemang-Manu, has served notice to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that his party intends to use the cocaine saga for propaganda purposes as payback for what the NDC meted out to the erstwhile Kufuor administration on a similar case. According to Agyemang-Manu, “when President Kufuor was [in power], cocaine turned into konkonte, then all of a sudden it was President Kufuor. All of his ministers and his party and all NPP people were cocaine peddlers and they were the corrupt people who were dealing with cocaine in this country.” Mr. Agyemang-Manu was speaking on Joy FM’s current affairs programme, Newsfile, Saturday, on the recent cocaine-turned-baking-soda case. The former deputy Interior Minister said instead of the state concentrating on the appropriate institutions to carry out investigations in order to punish those who were complicit in such controversial narcotic cases in the past, “we just attacked politicians, created a very bad perception of one political party.” He said now that the tables have turned, the very people who were accusing former President Kufuor of masterminding the narcotic trade are ducking and striving to absolve the sitting president: “what type of double standard is this?” he asked. “I would want to assure Alex [Segbefia] that the NPP will take a stance; we haven’t come out yet but the propaganda you used against us on this konkonte thing will also impact on you too… I want to assure them that the propaganda wouldn’t stop at all. They have taught us what we should do and that is exactly what we will do.” When host of the programme, Matilda Asante, enquired whether the NPP was going to retaliate based on what some NDC members said in the past, Mr Agyemang-Manu stated; “don’t you realize that they always keep on making references to [what happened in the past]? So we wouldn’t let them go scot free. Let us finish the one-one draw first before we start looking at things.”